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Google announces its AI-powered Pixel 10 smartphone series
Google announced its new series of Pixel smartphones, including the Google Pixel 10 Pro, which has new AI and durability features. Google on Wednesday debuted its latest line of Pixel smartphones that prominently feature the Gemini assistant as artificial intelligence increasingly becomes the battleground where device companies compete. The Alphabet company announced the Pixel 10 […]
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Intel in talks with other large investors for equity boost at discount, sources say
Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan speaks at the company’s Annual Manufacturing Technology Conference in San Jose, California, U.S. April 29, 2025. Laure Andrillon | Reuters Intel is in talks with other large investors to receive an equity infusion at a discounted price, people familiar with the matter told CNBC’s David Faber. Intel stock slid more than […]
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Epic touts new AI tools for patients and doctors at company’s annual meeting
Visitors attend UGM 2025. Courtesy of Epic Space travelers, robots and, of course, artificial intelligence. They were all on display on Tuesday at Epic Systems’ annual Users Group Meeting, held at the health software giant’s 1,670-acre campus in Verona, Wisconsin. Judy Faulkner, Epic’s 82-year-old CEO, dressed for the occasion in a purple wig with neon […]
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Apple just landed a key win for the global encryption fight
Key Points The U.S. government on Monday announced the U.K. would drop its demand for Apple to provide a “back door” to user data. The move represents a triumph for the iPhone maker and, more broadly, for end-to-end encryption. Tech companies say that building an encryption “back door” would not only undermine user privacy, but […]
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Analysts downplay AI bubble worries as Altman says some investors will be left ‘very burnt’
The artificial intelligence boom that Sam Altman helped ignite with ChatGPT in late 2022 is starting to make even him uneasy. Startups with little more than a pitch deck are raising hundreds of millions. Valuations have become “insane.” Capital is chasing a “kernel of truth” with feverish speed. The OpenAI CEO still believes the long-term […]
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Musk’s Starlink suffers apparent outage as SpaceX launches more satellites
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Satellite internet service Starlink, which is owned and operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, appeared to suffer a brief network outage on Monday, with thousands of reports of service interruptions on Downdetector, a site that logs tech issues. The outage marked the second in two weeks for Starlink. SpaceX did not […]
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Bill Gates meets Willy Wonka: How Epic’s 82-year-old billionaire CEO, Judy Faulkner, built her software factory
Judy Faulkner, founder and chief executive officer of Epic Systems Corp., during the Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York, Dec. 5, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Do not go public. Do not acquire or be acquired. Software must work. These are the first three of the 10 commandments splashed across bathrooms and […]
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OpenAI in talks to sell around $6 billion in stock at roughly $500 billion valuation
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on July 8, 2025. David A. Grogan | CNBC OpenAI is preparing to sell around $6 billion in stock as part of a secondary sale that would value […]
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Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI bot policies for children following damning report
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs after attending a Federal Trade Commission trial that could force the company to unwind its acquisitions of messaging platform WhatsApp and image-sharing app Instagram, at U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 15, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said Friday that he will investigate […]
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Apple Watch getting redesigned blood oxygen feature following legal dispute
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 9, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple on Thursday announced a redesigned blood oxygen feature for some Apple Watch users, following a years-long intellectual property […]
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